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Award Winners 2012/13

BBC HARDtalk – Sima Samar

CNN Heroes – Anuradha Koirala

Menschenwürde Preisträger 2011

Egypt doctor and Saudi professor to receive 2011 Alkamara Award

Verleihung des Preises für Menschenwürde 2010

Verleihung des Preises für Menschenwürde 2008

Preisträgerin 2008: Somaly Mam

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„Asylum is a human right. Solidarity, empathy and humanity belong to a multicultural and open-hearted Europe“, this message is spread by Amnesty International and many other organisations – the Roland Berger Foundation supports the campaign as well. Until now more than 12.700 people have signed the campaign. They all want to show their solidarity with the refugees who are seeking protection in Europe right now: „It is time to stand up for human rights in Europe.“ http://www.europa-der-menschenrechte.org/

Amnesty for Mazen Darwish

The Recipient of the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2011 and founder of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Mazen Darwish, is covered by a political amnesty. This decision was made by an anti-terrorism court in Damascus on Monday, 31 August. Darwish had been granted a provisional release on 10 August. The Syrian journalist spent over three years in arbitrary detention after being arrested alongside a number of other colleagues during a raid on the office of the SCM by Air Force Intelligence personnel in Damascus in February 2012. Mazen and his colleagues were facing up to 15 years in prison under article 8 of the 2012 anti-terrorism law on a charge of “publishing information about terrorists acts.”

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its 2015 Hunger Report: “About 795 million people are undernourished globally, down 167 million over the last decade, and 216 million less than in 1990–92.” http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

“Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive.” A very interesting talk by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming: http://bit.ly/1rTOT5M

In its 2015 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders highlights the worldwide deterioration in freedom of information in 2014: “Beset by wars, the growing threat from non-state operatives, violence during demonstrations and the economic crisis, media freedom is in retreat on all five continents.” http://index.rsf.org/#!/

“With close to four million refugees, the scale of the crisis is overwhelming. This report tells the stories of the real people behind the numbers, in their own words.” Amnesty International UK released a staggering report on Syrian refugees. http://bit.ly/1DdhnS6